Triple
T91137
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Second Continental Congress |
E1830
|
entity |
| Predicate | member |
P10
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Witherspoon |
E15879
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John Witherspoon | Statement: [Second Continental Congress, member, John Witherspoon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Witherspoon Context triple: [Second Continental Congress, member, John Witherspoon]
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A.
John Witherspoon
chosen
John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and statesman who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and became a prominent political leader during the American Revolution.
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B.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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C.
James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin was an 18th-century American political leader, scholar, and governor of Massachusetts who played a key role in the intellectual and civic life of the early United States.
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D.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Benjamin A. Smith II
Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69a24d1a97dc819094e6c021fe9b05a7 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a24f6c29888190890caa7872d63ac6 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:14 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a362b7b55c8190b5d5ecf531a9d319 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 9:48 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:07 a.m.